Check out the alumni schedule and sign up to attend an event near you! We encourage you to come to Homecoming each October to see classmates, former professors, reconnect and observe some exciting changes to campus. We also have lots of fun events around the country year-round – from family days at baseball games, buffet dinners, lunches during district assembly, and even a pig roast! Plus some alumni are gracious enough to host in their home or church. Be a part of the fun!

Our alumni have led extraordinary lives beyond ENC! Each year we receive numerous alumni award nominations and are always pleased to see all the wonderful things our alumni have done and continue to do. We have also had some exceptional athletes inducted into the Carroll F. Bradley Hall of Fame. Check out some alumni stories as well as the bios of some of our award recipients. Be inspired!

Did you know that as an ENC alum you are part of the Alumni Association and have access to some special benefits? If you’re coming to the area you can get discounts at local hotels. Plus Liberty Mutual gives discounts on insurance to ENC alumni – get a quote and save some money! Not to mention the other services available to you on campus. Be resourceful!

Keep up to speed on what’s happening at ENC by reading our biweekly e-newsletter, ENews, or our quarterly newspaper, the Christian Scholar. Find old pictures of you and your classmates in the Nautilus online. Plus see what students are saying in the student led Veritas (the new Campus Camera). Be informed!

Did you have a meaningful ENC experience? Give back to current and future generations of students so they may have the same great experience you had! Alumni participation is imperative for college rankings and foundation consideration for grants. Help improve the quality of education for our students and make a difference in future generations. Be generous!

Leigh (Killberg, 96) Purinton graduated from ENC with a degree in Communication Arts with an emphasis on television production and started her career in television at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA. She then moved to Los Angeles, CA and started working on television shows such as “Touched by an Angel”, “Promised Land”, “7th Heaven”, and “NYPD Blue”, as well as on multiple network television pilots. While working on “NYPD Blue”, Leigh met her future husband who also works in the industry as a Gaffer/Set Lighting Technician. They were married in 2002. That same year, after helping launch “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, Leigh began her Producing career working on projects like “Blue Collar TV”, “Foxworthy’s Big Night Out”, and several television pilots. The variety of projects from sitcoms, sketch comedy, live band performances, talk shows and one-hours all prepared her for the next steps in her career.

In 2007, Leigh began working as a Producer on a Discovery Channel show called “Dirty Jobs” for Pilgrim Films & Television, a Los Angeles television production company. She went on to produce multiple other cable docu-reality projects for Pilgrim and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy awards for her work on “Dirty Jobs”. In 2008 Leigh and her husband welcomed a beautiful baby girl into their family. After her maternity leave, she returned to Pilgrim and was promoted to Executive-In-Charge of Production. She currently oversees 8-10 television series for various networks and is involved in the day-to-day operations of each series from pre-production through delivery of each episode. Leigh has a wonderful community of friends in Los Angeles and enjoys attending the Montrose Church, a Nazarene church northeast of LA, with her husband and daughter.